An American in Lima

The more I learn about the handmade clothing worn by traditional people in the Andes, the more impressed I become.
The outfit above isn’t a museum piece, although it displays like one in the “Perú Hecho a Mano” boutique at Saga Falabella, in Lima’s Jockey Plaza mall. It is a very elaborate version of the typical [...]

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These colorful knit hats with earflaps, known as ch’ullos (CHEW-yohs), are worn by men in traditional Andean villages. You don’t usually find many high-quality ch’ullos in Lima, but this past Monday I found a virtual forest of them on the third floor of Saga Falabella department store, in Jockey Plaza, where the hats are being [...]

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